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by Hemal Jayasuriya

Dr Hemal Jayasuriya never ceases to be amazed at the strangeness and fascination of our world, and finds in it a subject for endless speculation. He is a published poet and is acknowledged in the International Who’s Who in Poetry. He obtained a PhD from Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Hemal also obtained a MA in Systems in Management, Lancaster University and a MSc in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University. Prior to that, Hemal obtained a BSc Honours in Biophysics from Flinders University, Australia. He is a Life Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society and a member of the Aristotelian Society. His articles are published in international scientific journals. His poems are published in academic journals and books. Hemal is inspired by the material and immaterial in the world which shapes his poetry. He is fascinated by cosmology and scientific phenomena in the world.
POEM

Waves, Particles, Vibrations

Moonlight sonata ; Red Dragonfly
Hovering over the tranquil water
In a lake : an image etched into the mind.
A past memory unfolds, holds
An Object firmly in the grip of the innards
Causes rapture in the Being.
Impulses, from In and Out,
Unlocatable, come and go,
Uncalled, impinges on the Self
Orchestrated by a stochastic
Thought Play. Oceans, there are
A many, some made of molecules of water
Others, made of Mercury, Air, Sound
Widening the Ocean
With which one began.
Women and Men, a mixed Set
may dance to the music
Waves of Guitars, Bagpipes, Violins
Harps, Drums, Clarinets and Pianos in many
Different melodious Oceans made up of
Varieties of expanding constituents